A kind of fury seized me as I saw that cruel defacement.

Combat before (a) advertisers, (b) a public audience, (c) a lawmaking body, the defacement of landscapes by advertising billboards.

" <Spot, blotch, speckle, fleck, dapple, smear, smutch, brand, defacement, blemish, stain, discoloration, speck, mark, smudge, flaw, defect, blot>.

" I shuddered, for, in spite of defacements manifold, I recognized the head of the man of Marwar Junction.

Amorphism N. amorphism^, informity^; unlicked cub^; rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.]; disorder &c 59; deformity &c 243. disfigurement, defacement; mutilation; deforming.

To discourage the mutilation of coins for sinister purposes, they are "milled" on the edges, and the stamp covers each face so that the metal could hardly be cut off without the coin showing defacement.

To the young Mesuriers they were hideous chromo-lithographs in vulgar gilt frames, arbitrary defacements of home; but undoubtedly even they would have found a tolerant tenderness for them, had they realised that they represented the poetrylong since renounced and put behind himof James Mesurier's life.

Later evidence indicates that while there was a demonstration there was no defacement of the vault.

I doubt whether fifty years have elapsed since the newest news in the world of locomotive fashion was, thatto the utter confusion and defacement of the "Sick, Lame, and Lazy," a sober vehicle so called from the nature of its cargo, which was nightly disbanded into comfortable beds at Newburya new post-coach had been set up which performed the journey to Bath in a single day.

We can readily refer the defacement of imperial insignia and the spoliation of royal houses to political turbulence engendered by acts of tyrannical misrule; but the mutilation of the crossthe universal Christian emblemremains to be explained, unless we attribute it to the brutal ignorance of the spoilers.

All churches and places devoted to religious worship and to the arts and sciences, all educational institutions, libraries, scientific collections, and museums are, so far as possible, to be protected; and all destruction or intentional defacement of such places or properly, of historical monuments, archives, or works of science and art, is prohibited, save when required by urgent military necessity.